Join the world’s largest green business ideas competition
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Get ready
Our competition is the ultimate testing ground, arming you with expert, rapid feedback to lock in your product-market fit and prove your business success:
Test your idea safely
Have a green idea but not sure where to start? ClimateLaunchpad is a free space to explore, test, and shape your concept with expert guidance.
Learn by doing
Gain practical tools to shape your idea into a real solution. Join boot camps, coaching sessions, and a global community supporting your journey. Apply new skills directly to grow your idea.
Meet the trainers
Join a global community
ClimateLaunchpad brings people together with bold ideas and big ambitions. Meet fellow innovators, mentors, and experts who believe in climate solutions, and be part of something bigger.
Climate-KIC network
Take your idea to the stage
As you progress, you’ll pitch your idea on bigger stages, gain visibility, meet global partners, and unlock new opportunities.
Applications Now Open
To enter the competition submit your idea or innovation with environmental impact. We’ll help you fast track that idea into a business and bypass all possible pitfalls along the way.
Note: Applications now open in Austria. Other countries opening March 2nd.
Apply nowOnline Course & Boot Camps
The top teams chosen by our National Leads take part in the ClimateLaunchpad National programme which kicks off with a multi-day digital Boot Camp.
National & Regional Finals
The top teams of each country go to the Regional Finals where they pitch in front of the region’s best and brightest.
The big prize? A bunch of new acquired skills & knowledge and networking opportunities to get your business thriving.
Global Grand Final, Singapore
The top teams from each region proceed to the Global Grand Final to pitch it out in front of an expert panel.
We’re helping start-ups in 51 countries (and counting)
ClimateLaunchpad is alive and kicking across the globe.
Click on your country of residence for more information.
In case you have questions about the programme in your country, you can contact your National Lead directly.
Austria
Next up
- Application Deadline
- March 30th 2026
- Boot Camp
- T.B.D.
- National Final
- T.B.D.
United Arab Emirates
Next up
- Application Deadline
- T.B.D.
- Boot Camp
- T.B.D.
- National Final
- T.B.D.
Proven impact
See the highlights from one of our 12 previous editions and learn how more than 5000 start-ups turned participation into success.
“Success as a start-up depends on how fast you are at solving problems.”
Tales and Tips from the Winner’s Circle #1 MABE Bio
Beyond the pitch: ClimateLaunchpad’s role in shaping sustainable startups
